File System Question

[Uranium City]

So it turns out drives formatted with default standard FAT32 limit individual file sizes to a measly 4 gigs. Never had a problem with that in the days of SD, but now...it's way too small. Not being a computer guy I think the way to correct this is to reformat a drive as NTFS. But my question is, to all Windows users,

Is NTFS the best way to format a drive for handling large files, or is there a better double secret file system I don't know about?

 

[wheatgrinder]

NTFS is it. If this is going to be a video only drive, use the largest cluster size your offered in the format dialog box. See here for why... http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_optimization.htm

 

[knightly]

NTFS is the solution, or, if you ever need to transition from mac to pc, you can get a Windows add on called "MacDrive" that supports the Mac HFS+ filesystem (Apple has FAT32 built into OSX, but read only NTFS).